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Here’s the stuff we’d never heard of before we covered it for the first time here. You wanted bleeding edge… here it is! [Follow this category’s RSS feed]

Duckside is a new PvPvE survival shooter and not something I just made up I swear

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Don't look at me like that. Duckside is a real game, not an MJ-inspired fever dream, and it's from tinyBuild, which is a real...

Co-op cozy game My Time at Evershine funded on Kickstarter in just 35 minutes

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Last week, MOP's Chris took a look at My Time at Evershine, the latest multiplayer cozy game from Pathea Games, best known for My...

Social First’s ‘social cross-platform MMO’ Nexus Station is officially announced

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Back in August we got wind of a new Finnish game studio called Social First and its plans to create a "cross-platform social MMO";...

Starlight Re:Volver is a candy-colored co-op dungeon delver coming to early access soon

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Most of the time we're not ones to zero in on a game's visuals, but in the case of the upcoming multiplayer co-op title...

Rumor: Insiders leak details about Destiny Rising, an in-development mobile game by NetEase

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What would a looter shooter like Destiny look like on mobile? This is a question that many gamers may yet ponder as insider leaks...

Bohemia officially moves Vigor from PC early access to launch as Steam reviews tank

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Bohemia Interactive's free-to-play multiplayer looter-shooter Vigor officially launched on PC this week after a console launch and then a run in early access for...
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‘Bullet-heaven’ co-op game The Spell Brigade is now available in early access

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What is friendship? Is it listening when someone has a problem? Is it offering resources and succor to bosom companions? Is it playing a...

Mike Morhaime’s Dreamhaven will publish co-op rogue-lite Lynked Banner of the Spark

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Most of the news coming out of former Blizzard dev Mike Morhaime's company Dreamhaven has been about its ambitions and an open call for...

EA says it won’t replace The Sims 4 with a sequel as it preps fall playtest for multiplayer Project Rene

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The fate of The Sims franchise in the last few years has been a little bit messy: EA has been working on what it...

Preview: My Time at Evershine promotes players from cozy townie to ‘adventurous’ town manager

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Pathea Games has something of a "type" when it comes to the game it likes to make. My Time at Portia and the multiplayer-friendly...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Tidal Nexus Online, Kaetram, and Shin Megami Tensei Imagine

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games that you've (probably) never heard of! Tidal Nexus Online: This underwater MMO-lite came to...
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Temtem Swarm begins its latest closed beta test – here are the patch notes

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This week has brought a new chapter to Crema's wider Temtem IP as Temtem Swarm, the studio's multiplayer bullet hell survivor title, has officially...

Cozy co-op van life game Outbound just funded on Kickstarter for almost $300K

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Now this is the kind of "living in a van down by the river" that I can get behind: Outbound has officially funded on...

Elder Scrolls Online’s update 44 promises PvP, companions, and new content, plus TES Castles launches on mobile

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ZeniMax Online Studios took the wraps off Elder Scrolls Online's update 44 last night, showcasing the long-promised new companions and PvP update that the...

Transformers Galactic Trials promises ‘a fusion of racing and rogue-lite gameplay’ October 11

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Presumably, someone clawed into a pot full of IP names and gaming sub-genres, tossed it at a wall, and saw the words "racing game,"...

The Spell Brigade is a ‘hectic bullet-heaven’ multiplayer co-op title headed for early access September 16

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If you've got three friends who all love the chaos of a bullet heaven shooter, then you probably already have the ingredients to enjoy...

Pick Me Pick Me is a multiplayer ‘AI-powered PvP dating sim’ with bizarre monetization

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You probably clicked on that headline to wonder just what in the deuce a PvP dating sim is about. Well we unfortunately can't tell...

Cozy co-op camping van game Outbound smashes through its modest Kickstarter goal

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Ever dream of owning your own camping van and striking out on wilderness adventures -- but then balk at the sticker price of such...
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Team-based PvP shooter Concord’s release was marked by low interest and middling impressions

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This past Friday saw the multiplayer world get yet another live service team-based PvP FPS in the form of Concord, and if that description...

The Elder Scrolls Castles is a mobile castle management game arriving September 10

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We won't be covering this game too much owing to the fact that it's a purely single-player experience, but it's worth touching on lightly...